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Re: Bazaar 2.1.0b3 desktop installer for Mac OS X 10.6

 

2009/11/29 Gordon Tyler <gordon@xxxxxxxxx>:
> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.5.3.dmg
>
> I'll add a note to the download wiki page about it requiring Qt to be
> separately installed. I may also be able to make the installer check if
> Qt is installed and show an error message to the user.

Ah OK, off to download :-)

> I could try adding only the bits of the Qt framework used by bzr into
> the package to make it smaller but that could break other Qt using apps
> on the system.

What are the essential bits needed for qbzr / bzr-explorer?

> The problem is that the Mac OS X package installer system doesn't
> provide a proper uninstaller due to a lack of dependency analysis. There
> is a pkgutil tool which can be used to force the deletion of a package
> and its files but I want to read up on this stuff before I publish a
> script which uses that.

OK, there is an older script on launchpad which hasn't been updated
for quite some time, but may provide some clues:
https://launchpad.net/bazaar-mac-uninstaller/

Thanks again for all your work!

Isn



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